Product Description

The Epson Perfection 1670 Photo delivers innovative photo restoration capabilities, incredible value, and astonishing image quality. With 1600 x 3200 dpi hardware resolution and 48-bit color, you'll get brilliant color scans every time, plus a quick, easy way to restore your favorite photos. A convenient, built-in 35mm slide and film strip adapter accommodates slides or negatives.User-friendly software features Epson Easy Photo Fix technology for one-touch color restoration of faded photos, negatives and slides, plus easy dust removal from slides and negatives. This industry-leading technology, exclusively from Epson, makes photo restoration easier than ever before. There's even an automatic scanning mode for optimal results in one quick touch. The improved Epson Smart Panel software has all the tools necessary to scan photos, text, or graphics with vivid results.The Epson Perfection 1670 Photo is compatible with most Windows or Macintosh systems and offers Hi-Speed USB 2.0 connectivity for Windows. A great companion to an Epson ink jet printer, it's the perfect fit for the home or home office, whether you are scanning documents, archiving slides and negatives, or restoring photos.Offering high-quality results, unique affordability, and user-friendly performance, the Epson Perfection 1670 Photo makes not just your scans - but you - look brilliant.

Product Details

• Brand: Epson
• Model: B11B162101
• Dimensions: 10.00 pounds

Features

• One-touch color restoration with Epson Easy Photo Fix technology
• 1,600 x 3,200 dpi hardware resolution
• Built-in 35mm slide and filmstrip adapter
• Complete software bundle for photo enhancements and more
• Hi-Speed USB 2.0 connectivity; PC and Mac compatible

Amazon.com Product Description
The Perfection 1670 from Epson is a flatbed color photo scanner with a number of useful features and a reasonable price tag. With a 1,600 x 1,200 dpi maximum optical resolution and 48-bit color depth (16-bit grayscale), the 1670 delivers crisp, accurate, and true-to-life images perfect for a wide variety of home and home office uses.

Scanning speeds are as fast as 7.68 msec/line at 1,600 dpi and 5.12 msec/line at 600 dpi, while one-touch scan, copy, scan to e-mail, and scan to Web buttons help you automate these frequently utilized features. The included 35 mm transparency adapter accommodates both negatives and slides (up to three negatives or two slides), while the 8.5-by-11.7-inch scanning bed supports originals up to letter size.

Easy Photo Fix Technology

Designed with photo and slide restoration in mind, the 1670 comes bundled with a variety of software applications designed to help you get the most out of your scans. Titles include Epson Scan with Easy Photo Fix Technology, ArcSoft PhotoImpression, Epson Smart Panel, ABBYY FineReader Sprint OCR, and NewSoft Presto! BizCard.

Weighing just 6.8 pounds, the 1670 has a small 10.8-by-16.5-inch footprint and connects to your computer via its USB port. The 1670 utilizes a white cold cathode fluorescent lamp and Epson's MatrixCCD line sensor and consumes 17 W of power. PC and Mac compatible, the 1670 also comes backed with a one-year limited warranty on both parts and labor.

What's in the Box
Epson Perfection 1670 Photo Scanner; 35mm transparency adapter (built into scanner lid); 35mm film holder for slides and film strips; CD-ROM with Epson Scan Software, Creativity and Productivity Software, and Electronic Reference Guide; USB 2.0/1.1 cable; AC adapter and power cable; scanner setup poster; warranty information

From the Manufacturer
The Epson Perfection 1670 Photo Scanner delivers innovative photo restoration capabilities, incredible value, and astonishing image quality. With 1,600 x 3,200 dpi hardware resolution and 48-bit color, you'll get brilliant color scans every time, plus a quick, easy way to restore your favorite photos. A convenient, built-in 35mm slide and filmstrip adapter accommodates slides or negatives.

User-friendly software features Epson Easy Photo Fix technology for one-touch color restoration of faded photos, negatives, and slides, plus easy dust removal from slides and negatives. This industry-leading technology, exclusively from Epson, makes photo restoration easier than ever before. There's even an automatic scanning mode for optimal results in one quick touch. The improved Epson Smart Panel software has all the tools necessary to scan photos, text, or graphics with vivid results.

The Epson Perfection 1670 Photo is compatible with most Windows or Macintosh systems and offers Hi-Speed USB 2.0 connectivity for Windows. A great companion to an Epson inkjet printer, it's the perfect fit for the home or home office, whether you are scanning documents, archiving slides and negatives, or restoring photos.

Offering high-quality results, unique affordability, and user-friendly performance, the Epson Perfection 1670 Photo makes not just your scans--but you--look brilliant.

Customer Reviews

Unhappy with slide scanning
In interests of full disclosure, I was only interested in using the scanner to scan family slides, and I returned the scanner after one week.

On the positive side, installation was a breeze in Windows XP. Epson includes a high-speed USB 2.0 cable, which was a nice extra, as most companies skimp here. I was also intrigued by the "touch up old faded photos" software. I have had great experiences with Epson scanners before: in the past I have found Epson scanners to be among the fastest and most accurate, and they have, in the past, included the best OCR software free. I was disappointed that this scanner included ABBYY's OCR software, which is inferior to the OCR software Epson included with last year's scanners. (See CNET's reviews of OCR software.)

After hooking up, I scanned a photo using the included software and automatic settings. The scan went well. I was a little surprised that the automatic settings default to 300 dpi scanning (whether for photos or slides), but higher settings produce images so large in (initially uncompressed) megabytes as to slow down my relatively new Dell computer with 128 meg RAM. Scanning the photo went quickly.

Things did not go as well with the slide scanning. While the software is quite easy to manage, whether in automatic or manual settings, a few annoyances interfere with what could otherwise be quite a successful suite. First off, the scanning software uses overlapping windows for such (simultaneous) windows as the preview window, the scanned pictures window, and the manual settings window, but none of these have separate tabs or "buttons" in the Windows XP taskbar, so it is difficult to move each out of the way to find the other ones. I'm unsure how they even accomplished this, as I've never used a program in XP that didn't produce a button on the taskbar corresponding to an open window. At first this was an annoyance, but after three days, it was crazy infuriating, as it makes it difficult not only to deal with the scanner windows themselves which keep hiding each other, but it also makes very cumbersome to multitask with any other programs. When the scanner is scanning, its software window sometimes will not hide, and then when you do hide it, you can't bring it to the fore again without minimizing the other programs' windows, or it will bring to the fore the wrong window. How Epson can commission an expertly performing software application, but have it without corresponding window-tabs, is typical of today's rush-to-the-market user-unfriendly software. I suppose it doesn't matter when scanning the occasional piece, but it certainly ain't fun when you're scanning the family photo album.

But the final straw was that after hours of scanning various slides at different resolutions, I could not produce a scan that was not SLIGHTLY blurry. Since some of my slides were taken by professional photographers and look crystal clear on the wall, I scuttled my project and returned the scanner. Why spend a week converting the family slides for permanent sharing and archiving, and getting a blurry scan? I have read that this is a common problem with inexpensive scanners: I suspect that if you take the slide out of its white cardboard frame, so it can lay perfectly flat, they might be in focus, but I don't want to ruin my slides. Seems to me that if they can put an autofocus mechanism in extremely cheap cameras, they could have figured out a way to autofocus the slides in this slide-scanning scanner.

One fast! scanner
Let me start with a disclaimer- all I want out of a scanner is fast scanning of B&W/gray scale material in an office environment. I have bought/tested several suposedly fast scanners and I have been disappointed (the Canon I bought thinks about scanning for 45 seconds, then it scans!)Well the Epson delivers- scanning at 200 dpi I can do partial pages in 5-6 seconds and full pages in 12 seconds (that's from the time you press scan to the end) You can bypass the preview mode and send the scans directly to a program or file. The software has good (you can save all the scan settings for different scans) and bad points (it seems basackwards sometimes-ex. some features only activate after you do a preview scan)
Can't comment on other features i don't use but for $$$ this is a speed demon!

Good Value for Home Use
Working on a compact budget, I was looking for something I could use to scan photos, negatives, and slides that would approach quality amateur level.

For photo scans, I was impressed by the speed, the quality was average or slightly better than average.

For slide scans, I found that if you have an image with a lot of black or very dark space, the scanner/software gets confused and it took several tries to get it right; sometimes, it wouldn't happen at all. Otherwise, slide scanning was fine. Nothing to write home about, but adequate.

I've had much better luck with film negative scans. Colors come out rich and detail is fine. The higher resolutions take forever, but the results are worth it.

I tried playing with the three different software settings: full-on automatic, pro, and home use. I haven't bothered with the automatic mode, it was too restrictive. The professional setting is more trouble than it's worth, for the most part. Great if you want to play around with colors and such for the fun of it, but trying to use it for color correction was more of a hassle. The 'home' setting works best for me 95% of the time.

There are better scanners out there, but for the price, this is a fine little machine.